Irby Dyer III

Vietnam War
Unit5th Special Forces Group
RankSergeant U.S. Army
Entered Service FromMidland Texas
Date of DeathDecember 2 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Sergeant Dyer was a member of Detachment B-52 DELTA, 5th Special Forces Group. On December 2, 1966, he was a medic flying in a Bell Iroquois Utility Helicopter (UH-1D) for an extraction of a long range reconnaissance patrol over Laos. The aircraft was hit, crashed and burned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.